New home construction increased for the third month in a row in September, according to figures from a local home builders association, the latest sign that the St. Louis-area real estate market has hit bottom and is slowly rebounding.

Permits to build…

Is that a light? Down there, at the end of the tunnel?

It just might be.

Yes, maybe there are some signs of light at last in the deep dark hole that has swallowed up the local home-building industry for the last…

Permits to build new, single-family homes grew by 1 percent in July, a small year-over-year increase but the first since the summer of 2007.

There were 276 permits issued for construction of new single-family homes in seven Missouri counties tracked by…

After this news earlier in the week of a 17 percent jump in housing starts and a 4 percent increase in building permits in May, there were hopes that a turnaround is near in the home construction market.

But not just yet…

All sorts of interesting numbers in the national report on building permits and housing starts out this morning. The Commerce Department said building permits fell 3.3 percent in April, but that all that loss was in the cash-crunched multi-family housing sector.…

Homebuilding permits are way down so far this year in the St. Louis area.

And yet . . .

In March, the number of building permits issued increased throughout the region, according to figures out today from the Homebuilders Assocation of St. Louis.

In St.…

We got some new building permits data today from the Home Builders Association of St. Louis & Eastern Mo.

First, a spot of good news. More permits were issued in February - 214* - than in any month since October. This…

Home builders are in the dumps, and it doesn’t look like they’ll be coming out of it any time soon.

The National Association of Home Builders and Wells Fargo put out their monthly home builder sentiment index today and found basically…

Year-end building permit data is out from the Home Builders Association of St. Louis and Eastern Missouri. And, as expected, the numbers were grim.

Permits for new home construction fell 44% from 2007 to 2008 in seven counties on the Missouri…